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Posted on 6/24/10 at 10:33 pm to NOSA
I don't think Shinn is cheap in terms of players.
He's cheap in terms of everything else. He runs the team like its a mom and pop operation. And he's a weird guy.
He's cheap in terms of everything else. He runs the team like its a mom and pop operation. And he's a weird guy.
Posted on 6/24/10 at 10:34 pm to NOSA
Exactly
Posted on 6/24/10 at 10:38 pm to supatigah
he spent foolishly because he went cheap with his front office people
and yea shoe how could anyone believe this franchise would do something retarded?
and yea shoe how could anyone believe this franchise would do something retarded?
This post was edited on 6/24/10 at 10:39 pm
Posted on 6/24/10 at 10:39 pm to BilJ
like podnuhs
Posted on 6/24/10 at 10:39 pm to Fun Bunch
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He's cheap in terms of everything else. He runs the team like its a mom and pop operation. And he's a weird guy.
Totally agree with this. I'd love to see a comparison of front office/scouting personnel to other NBA teams strictly by quantity.
Posted on 6/24/10 at 10:39 pm to BilJ
Byron Scott and bower were the front office
See what that got him
But he wasn't cheap
See what that got him
But he wasn't cheap
Posted on 6/24/10 at 10:40 pm to BilJ
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and yea shoe how could anyone believe this franchise would do something retarded?
not THIS retarded. come on man. He knows he loses leverage with CHOUEST if Paul is traded.
Posted on 6/24/10 at 10:40 pm to Maximus
tim mcgraw's favorite so SHUTUP
Posted on 6/24/10 at 10:40 pm to NOSA
We have 2 scouts. And they are related to his friends.
Posted on 6/24/10 at 10:41 pm to Fun Bunch
Pretty sure I read that before but I wasn't sure. Definitely sad. 
Explains the draft history outside of last year. (And West)
Explains the draft history outside of last year. (And West)
This post was edited on 6/24/10 at 10:42 pm
Posted on 6/24/10 at 10:44 pm to NOSA
There was an article in a pretty major magazine about the Hornets front office operations a year or so ago. I wish I could find it.
It was depressing. They are basically in a basement like office in the Alario Center with a skeleton Front Office.
Other teams have something like triple the personel that we have.
It was depressing. They are basically in a basement like office in the Alario Center with a skeleton Front Office.
Other teams have something like triple the personel that we have.
Posted on 6/24/10 at 10:44 pm to BilJ
LINK?
Posted on 6/24/10 at 10:46 pm to Maximus
I just said "I wish I could find it". I read that article a long time ago. I'll check the googles.
Posted on 6/24/10 at 10:50 pm to Fun Bunch
Boom, found it. It was on Yahoo:
LINK
LINK
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As franchises go, the Hornets have the most streamlined front office in the NBA. Beyond the practice gym, there are modest connecting offices with thin walls between Bower and his assistant GM, Brian Hagen. There’s the front office, just a GM and his assistant. The Hornets have two full-time scouts on the road. And that’s it. Most teams have three and four times the personnel, but not the New Orleans Hornets.
They’re the barest-bones operation in the NBA, and yet under Bower they’ve shown themselves to be a model of resourcefulness and resolve.
George Shinn is the one NBA owner without another industry where he makes his money. The Hornets are his business, and Shinn runs this organization like the corner Mom and Pop. The Hornets hire cheap, and hire cheaper when those talented people move up and out to the rest of the NBA.
Posted on 6/24/10 at 10:50 pm to Fun Bunch
Shinn was a diploma mill guy. He couldn't sniff NBA ownership in the modern day, if not for buying it back then, not even with the league in slight decline vs years ago.
Mecoms and Benson couldn't own an NFL team in today's NFL..ownership model dollar scale has far bypassed them..
Some are Steinbrenners and Chouest and Fords whom build boats and cars..others were merely Spanos and Benson..whom sold used ones.
P.S. Do you think a Lakers tix sales guy would ever be busted as a bookie, trying to make a living, like a lowly paid Hornet guy was recently as an stateside agent for an offshore BM?
Mecoms and Benson couldn't own an NFL team in today's NFL..ownership model dollar scale has far bypassed them..
Some are Steinbrenners and Chouest and Fords whom build boats and cars..others were merely Spanos and Benson..whom sold used ones.
P.S. Do you think a Lakers tix sales guy would ever be busted as a bookie, trying to make a living, like a lowly paid Hornet guy was recently as an stateside agent for an offshore BM?
This post was edited on 6/24/10 at 11:07 pm
Posted on 6/24/10 at 10:51 pm to Fun Bunch
the moron thing was alejandro's work, btw.
This post was edited on 6/24/10 at 10:53 pm
Posted on 6/24/10 at 10:53 pm to Maximus
oh you will see soon enough pal
Posted on 6/24/10 at 10:54 pm to Fun Bunch
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There’s the front office, just a GM and his assistant. The Hornets have two full-time scouts on the road. And that’s it. Most teams have three and four times the personnel, but not the New Orleans Hornets.
They’re the barest-bones operation in the NBA, and yet under Bower they’ve shown themselves to be a model of resourcefulness and resolve.
George Shinn is the one NBA owner without another industry where he makes his money. The Hornets are his business, and Shinn runs this organization like the corner Mom and Pop. The Hornets hire cheap, and hire cheaper when those talented people move up and out to the rest of the NBA.
geez
Posted on 6/24/10 at 11:10 pm to kfizzle85
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We can trade him for a pick and a bag of dicks and pick up a big time FA. It works in the trade machine so it must be possible irl.
I'm picturing clicking on "bag of dicks" in the trade machine.
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